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  • Best practice for the control of potato outgrade piles

  • Growers' Advice Fight Against Blight

  • Fight Against Blight

    Launch Fight Against Blight MapsThe Potato Council has offered a blight incident reporting service to the potato industry for the past 8 years. This information is collected on a voluntary basis by...

  • Gardeners Advice For Potato Blight

    Potato and tomato blight is a disease caused by the fungus-like organism Phytophthora infestans which spreads rapidly in the foliage of potatoes and tomatoes causing collapse and decay. Potato...

  • Varietal Resistance To 13 A2

    Following the introduction of the A2 mating type of Phytophthora infestans into Europe in the late 1970s, new strains of late blight pathogen have subsequently developed in all countries. In GB...

  • Potato Tuber Diseases

    A number of fungi, fungal-like organisms and bacteria are capable of causing disease in potato tubers. Symptoms may be present at harvest, some diseases spread through stored tubers and some will...

  • Fight Against Blight

    Potato Council provide a range of Late Blight services and information at our online toolbox for Potato Blight.The Potato Council has offered a blight incident reporting service to the potato...